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ChelyabinskCapital city, economic and cultural centre of Chelyabinsk oblast (region), Russian Federation, 240 km/150 mi south of Yekaterinburg on the Miass River; population (2002) 1,104,600. Chelyabinsk is a major industrial centre in the Urals and an important rail centre. The main branches of industry are engineering (tractors, aircraft, machine tools), and metallurgy (steel, ferro-alloys, zinc). There is a large lignite-fired power station nearby. The important Chelyabinsk coal basin (first exploited in 1906) lies 15 km/9 mi to the east of the city. Waste from the city's plutonium plant makes it possibly the most radioactive place in the world. Formerly a Tatar village, Chelyabinsk became a Cossack fortress in 1736. The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which began here in 1886, established the city's commercial importance. The first industries (flour mills, railway workshops) appeared around this time, and Chelyabinsk supplanted Tyumen as the ‘Gateway to Siberia’ for goods and settlers. Industrial development under Stalin's Five-Year Plans in the 1930s and the relocation of factories here during World War II brought further growth. Chelyabinsk
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Chelyabinsk is its third destination in Kazakhstan. Vladimir Ivanovich POPOV was born on December 24, 1949; after finishing the Chelyabinsk Tank Command School in 1971, served in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany; after graduating from the Armor Academy (1978), served in the Fast East Military District in positions from battalion commander to division commander. As part of the festival's International Choreographers' Commissioning Program (ICCP), Pona, who is founder and artistic director of the Chelyabinsk Theater of Contemporary Dance in Russia, worked with 10 students for five weeks to create a piece for the festival's performance lineup on a program shared with Miguel Robles of Argentina and Tom Shimazaki of Japan. |
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